The Retrograde Newspaper

Nonprofit profile at a glance

EIN
332417521
IRS 990-EZ coverage
2025–2025
Forms available
Form 990-EZ 2025
Location
Austin, TX, USA
Phone
2146006245
Rating
69
Verdict
SUPPORTED
Rating confidence
Moderate
Sector
Media, Communications Organizations

Official website

Reported finances

Revenue
$7,957
Expenses
$7,313
Assets
$644
Liabilities
$0

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.

Leadership & pay

9 people listed

Executive titles in this filing

  • Gregorio Olivares Gutierrez (Director, President, and Editor-in-Chief)

People named in this filing

  • Michael Koretzky (Director)
  • Steven Monacelli (Director)
  • Humberto Gonzalez-Nunez (Director)

Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.

Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.

Overview

Mission

The Retrograde Newspaper is a 501(c)3 non-profit educational newsroom that focuses on the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), its people and its surrounding communities. The Retrograde Newspaper publishes biweekly across its website, social media and a regular print issue. These platforms provide the UTD community with news, culture, sports, student and community opinions and a forum for discussion. The Retrograde Newspaper's coverage aims to enrich the student body and reflect the broad range of perspectives within UTD's campus and student population while adhering to all applicable state and federal laws.

What it reported doing in 2025

The second most expensive program for The Retrograde Newspaper was its November 2025 print newspaper run which included the publication of 2,500 copies of a newspaper written and designed by student volunteers. The print publication was accompanied by two weeks of in person distribution and online posts.

Operating model

Revenue model
Donor-supported. 68% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
Distribution model
Direct operator. The filing allocates 100% of reported program-service expenses outside its grant, affiliate-payment, and member-benefit lines. This expense classification does not rule out separately announced grant awards.

The verdict

SUPPORTED - A large share of available resources goes toward mission work and the filed numbers largely add up. Total assets are small relative to annual expenses; liquid coverage is unknown and expenses are high relative to revenue.

Rating breakdown

  • Financial Efficiency: 68
  • Transparency & Controls: 82
  • Sustainability: 45
  • Growth: NotEnoughData

Detailed rating inputs

Financial Efficiency

  • Mission deployment rate: 66.4%; rating input score 66
  • Program expense ratio: 72.3%; rating input score 72

Transparency & Controls

  • Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 51st percentile among comparable filings
  • Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

  • Operating margin: 8.1%; rating input score 58; 58th percentile among comparable filings
  • Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.09; rating input score 12; 12th percentile among comparable filings
  • Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 66; 66th percentile among comparable filings
  • Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

  • Program expense growth: Limited
  • Revenue growth: Limited
  • Asset growth: Limited

Details

  • Where the money goes: 66.4% of revenue deployed · 72.3% of spending went to programs
  • Governance: Filed governance answers
  • Accomplishments: 4 filed program accomplishments · $5K in reported program spending
  • Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 9 people listed
  • Consistency: 9 of 9 current checks pass
  • Schedules: 2 filed schedules
  • Contacts: How to reach this organization
  • Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
  • People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.

Key Signals

Signals prioritize questions for review. They are not findings of misconduct.

  • High — Sustainability: Total-asset coverage ratio scored 12/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Operating margin scored 58/100.
  • Review — Sustainability: Officer compensation ratio scored 56/100.